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Wednesday, 26 February 2014

Summer Course for Top Language Teachers of English - 2014

From January 20th to 31st we ran a 200-hour summer course for teachers of public schools and small private schools. The material we used for the workshop was based on the textbooks public schools use here in Peru.

The subjects we offered were: Making the most of the English textbook, Pronunciation, Developing Communicative Competence, Classroom Management and Language for Teachers. The most welcome were Pronunciation, Classroom Management and Language for Teachers.

It was a blended-learning course so at this stage we have finished receiving the participants´tasks but are still uploading some of their work in the different course blogs.

Good things are a product of collaborative work so we would like to thank Colegio de Profesores del Peru, Región Lima Metropolitana, Instituto Nacional Pedagógico de Monterrico, ELTeCS Peru and ELTeCS LatinAmerica (a very warm hello to my dear Renate for her continuous support). We must also express our gratitude to Mr. Guillermo Rivas from SM and Marita for their support and offer. We are really pleased to know we have such good friends we can rely on.

I am not going to say how successful the course was since that opinion belongs to the participants and also because I believe that the outcome of this kind of events is seen in the medium or long term when participants try out ideas and improve their teaching practice. Perhaps the fact that the participants treated us, tutors, to a pizza and sodas may indicate how satisfied they were with the course? Anyway, we are following-up this group of teachers and offering more opportunities for increasing their possibilities of development.

It is almost a month since the course ended and we received participants´contributions until a couple of weeks ago, we would like to share with you some of their contributions shown in the blogs we created for each course. Needless to say that we have tried to include the use of IT in the course, we used blogs and some mobile apps that were accesible to almost all of the participants. The initiative was very-well received.

The main blog is Summer Course for Top English Teachers (http://summerenglishcourse2014.blogspot.com/) and from here you can link to each of the other course blogs. I cannot tell you how proud we are of the hard-work and the effort participants displayed in their blog tasks trying to deal with time constraints but working collaboratively to fulfill all of them. This has certainly been a very interesting learning event for all of us and we are looking forward to repeating and increasing the experience with new groups and levels.

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About Me

As I grow older I have become more passionate about teaching, giving and sharing. I have been a teacher and a professor at different universities for a long time and now I am privileged to have become a teacher trainer and mentor.

I love exchanging experiences with other teachers and have become quite hooked to using web tools in my teaching.

I like plants, flowers and animals and am very concerned about our living planet. I am inspired by the Dalai Lama and am blessed for being happy almost all the time.